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Actress Anne Hathaway, who lost 25 pounds on a crash diet for the film, "Les Misérables," looks sporty and sassy in the January 2013 issue of Glamour.

The slender 5-foot-8 Anne dons a white tank top and black underwear that accentuate her lean thighs. Hathaway, 30, admitted she essentially starved herself to look the part of the emaciated Fantine in the tragedy, "Les Misérables."

"I had to be obsessive about it; the idea was to look near death," Hathaway told Vogue. "Looking back on the whole experience, it was definitely a little nuts. It was definitely a break with reality, but I think that’s who Fantine is anyway."

Anne lost 10 pounds before shooting began, and then lost another 15 pounds during a two-week break in filming by eating only two thin squares of dried oatmeal paste a day. Hathaway's competitive personality enabled her to stick to her extreme low-calorie diet.

"I like to fight for a job," she says. "You feel like you've emerged from the scrap, and you're like, 'OK, this one's mine. Did it. Done.' "

Transforming herself physically is nothing new for the dedicated Anne, who worked out five days a week to play Catwoman in "The Dark Knight Rises." In addition to gym workouts, Hathaway underwent stunt training, did strength exercises as well as 90 minutes of dance every day.

Anne, who switched to a vegan diet while training for "The Dark Knight Rises," has really embraced the plant-based eating plan.

"I don't go the soy-meat route; I have a really plant-based diet," she said. "So I wind up cooking at home a lot. Kale is amazing. Spelt [a kind of wheat] pasta is amazing. I can't do the white-flour stuff. It makes me really ill."

and you must be one of "~*~those~*~" who TRUELY thinks nonhumans are of a different moral status than humans. maybe if you read more work by ecofeminist carol j. adams and gary francione you wouldn't feel so adverse to vegans or the idea that god forbid we treat nonhumans with respect.

and maybe if you woke the fuck up you'd realise that a vegan diet is a luxury many cannot afford. not only can most people who live in poverty and on food stamps NOT afford vegan products, they are likely to be living in lower socio-economic areas that don't even stock and sell such products. or have you not heart of food deserts? not to mention the fact meat eating is an important part of many people's culture/religion, and there are people with health problems who cannot survive on a vegan diet. not to mention ED survivors who can find a vegan diet triggering.

maybe if you had half the compassion for people that you have for animals you'd realise how FUCKED UP it is to compare meat eating to sexism, racism, the holocaust, rape and child molestation. the fucking nerve of anyone to compare meat eating to any of the travesties i mentioned. get a grip.

you are exactly what people are talking about when they say they hate militant vegans. i'd suggest YOU read a thing or two about how privileged a vegan diet is and the completely valid reasons why people can not/will not become vegan. if anyone needs educating, it's you bew

speciesism is not the same as sexism, racism, or any other form of oppression of marginalized groups just as much as sexism isn't the same as racism. but they all have certain things in common like othering of certain persons and institutionalized power that works against them.

not everyone has the CHOICE to be vegan these days. and i never once said how veganism doesn't intersect with class cause it does...which is one of the hugest reasons some people just CAN'T be vegan. the fact that there are some people with health problems who can't survive being vegan is a problem as well. this is even more reasoning for those who are privleged enough to be vegan because if humans spent more time on developing ways for vegans with health problems to survive on a vegan diet the world would be a better place. but because a vegan lifestyle is not the majority, that won't happen unfortunately. those who can't afford to be vegan (health/economically wise) THOSE people have a legitimate reason to not be vegan cause their choice is ripped away. a vegan lifestyle is very privileged but if it was more widely accepted it would make those who ARE more economically challenged able to be vegan easier, and the interest would move toward the medical community to develop ways for those with health problems. it's a process that starts WITH those who ARE privleged enough to be vegan. as far as people with ED, thats a problem in itself than only professionals can help and since im not a psychologist idk how to help those with ED.

Consider this: being vegan is unethical because ultimately you're paying more money for your own food when you should be giving all that money to feed people who can't even afford food, much less think about veganism.

From your comments I've read, veganism operates on a modified hedonistic utilitarianism. Hedonistic utilitarianism is basically means that morality is based upon giving the highest amount of happiness to the highest number of humans. I said modified, because 1) veganism assumes that non-humans have the same moral value as humans, and 2) it is not the spread of happiness that is the problem, but the reduction of pain.

If we take that modified hedonistic utilitarianism to be the basis of veganism, I propose the following premises:

1) Veganism promotes the least pain for the most number of beings, whether human or non-human.2) Veganism is an expensive, privileged lifestyle.3) The privilege of the vegan lifestyle is inherently limiting the pain it is capable of reducing.

Preliminary conclusion:

4) Following 2), and 3), veganism cannot ever reach its state goal of 1), because of its limited availability to only the privileged classes.

Hence:

5) Veganism is inherently contradictory.

If you're going for the ethical stance that your entire vegan lifestyle stands on, you should give away all the money you use all vegan food stores and eat cereal all day. The very privileged, class-based issue of veganism is what destroys your ethical stance. The logic follows that if you preach about caring about non-humans that they don't feel pain, you should care enough about humans to make sure they don't feel pain as well.

uh try again. veganism is based upon bringing the least amount of pain to sentient creatures, not increasing the amount of happiness for as many humans as possible. giving away all the money it takes to be vegan to those who can't afford to be vegan does what? if they can't afford to be vegan, and i give away all the money in order for ME to be vegan, then i can't be vegan either? so what's your point here? this is why animal rights intersects with promoting a more socialist society where people don't have to worry about economics when it comes to animal rights. and i never once denied how veganism is a privileged choice, cause it is.

Nah, I'm just saying that it's your choice, and if you're trying to push it to others, don't make it an ethical issue. That's a landmine and it never works, because if you make it about ethics, there's no middle ground. You have to follow it in its logical whole. That's what you choose to do, but calling people unethical for not following your choice is just unsound reasoning, because you're unethical as well.

I totally understand where you're coming from wrt class. The sad thing about factory farming is that people privileged enough to be able to eat virtually limitless amounts of meat are taking that food and habitat away from people in other countries who are much less privileged. So basically the least privileged people in the states have no option except to support the factory farming system that fucks over people even less privileged than they are. It's sick.